Food for Thought ·What is the matter? Why do so many women hate their bodies and reject their natural female shape? ·Why is it that for 80 per cent of women in America, being female means feeling too fat? ·What is the matter when 31 per cent of 9-year-old girls are afraid of being fat? ·What is the matter when over 50 per cent of 9 and 10 year olds feel better about themselves when they are on a diet? ·What is the matter when, at any given moment, one out of every three American white women is on a diet? ·What is the matter when women think they are better people if they don’t eat? ·Why do we have a morality of orality? (Hoskins, Dellebuur. 2000)
· What is the matter? Why do so many women hate their bodies and reject their natural female shape?
· Why is it that for 80 per cent of women in America, being female means feeling too fat?
· What is the matter when 31 per cent of 9-year-old girls are afraid of being fat?
· What is the matter when over 50 per cent of 9 and 10 year olds feel better about themselves when they are on a diet?
· What is the matter when, at any given moment, one out of every three American white women is on a diet?
· What is the matter when women think they are better people if they don’t eat?
· Why do we have a morality of orality? (Hoskins, Dellebuur. 2000)